On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 23:19 -0700, Don Simons wrote:
> I wrote
>
> >Someone did work out the ossia and it might be in Cornelius Noack's "tips
> >and tricks". If not and if no one else provides a link, let me know and I'll
> >ferret it out. It wasn't easy to do...lots of inline TeX required.
>
> It's in the MusiXTeX manual
> http://www.icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixdoc.pdf
> in section 2.18.3. And the example isn't in PMX. This can no doubt be done
> in PMX with inline TeX but it'll be pretty tricky. Your other thought about
> using an EPS could probably also work, but I've only seen that in LaTeX
> documents, not plain TeX; and besides, to me it's unaesthetic to have your
> source spread out over more than one file. I'd suggest trying to use the
> method exemplified in musixdoc together with inline TeX in PMX. If you get
> stuck, that WOULD be a good problem to post on the list. Who knows, someone
> might even work out a simple example based on this posting (hint, hint,
> Olivier).
>
Harrumph!
Ideally, we want the following.
(1) The ossia is defined not only in the same file but physically
close to the primary alternative. For a short ossia, both
alternatives can be visible in a text editor at the same time.
(2) The ossia is written in pmx rather than musixtex. Well, mostly,
at least.
(3) When changes happen in the looseness or a system break happens in
the middle of the ossia, the program does "the right thing".
With respect to the example in the musixtex manual, I had to hack the
source around before I could get a result looking like the manual.
Perhaps I misunderstand something, but the code as given does have the
\hsize of the ossia hard-coded; I additionally tightened the spacing
within the ossia.
I found another example in musixtex at
<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00532.html>.
This example handles changes in looseness nicely but it breaks
conspicuously if a system break falls within the ossia.
Warning: hand-waving ahead.
My temptation is to try to write a script to pull ossias out of a pmx
file, typeset them, and then put the whole thing back together. But
having seen smart and experienced people call this a difficult
problem, I suspect that I cannot hope to accomplish something useful.
Is the gave worth the candle? What do you think?
Terry.
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